Mass motorization and mass transit
Subtitle: an American history and policy analysis
By: David W. Jones.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253351524
Subjects: Transportation, Automotive -- United States -- History; Transportation, Automotive -- Government policy -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Motorization in the United States and other industrial nations; title: Transit's American history, 1880-1929; title: The Great Depression and the New Deal : a pivotal epoch in U.S. transportation history; title: World War II and its immediate aftermath : the end of the streetcar era and the beginnings of the freeway era; title: The interstate and pervasive motorization, 1956-'80; title: Transit's conversion to public ownership; title: U.S. motorization since the OPEC embargo; title: The competitive difficulties of the U.S. automakers; title: Evolving challenges in an evolved environment; title: The changing valance of U.S. motorization; title: The road to sustainable motorization; title: Motorization and sustainability : history and prospect.